Zygophyllum.]  2YGOPHYLLE& (Sond.) 363 
narrowed at base ; Bigmcntas 3-4 times longer than the oblong, inciso- 
serrate scales ; capsules ovate, acute at each end, 5-winged. 
Has. Stony x ie at Zeekoe Riv., s000f. ; between Beaufort and Rhinoster- 
kopf. 2500-3000f. Drege/ Crad Tarka River 3000-4000f. and Fish River, Zey. / 
278. Bassuto-land, Meisner. Oct.- (Herb. Sond., E. Mey., T.C.D.) 
A small, rigid, much-branched bush, remarkable for its white-warted bark, at 
length cleft, and its y branchlets. Spines 2-6 lines long, simple or bifid. Pri- 
mary branches i take 22 a goose-quill. Leaves rarely solitary, almost always clus- 
tered at the base of ie lnk Boke branchlets. Leaflets 2-3 lines long, 1-1} line wide. 
Petioles equalling ee two lines long, reflexed in fruit, persistent. 
Petals tite Dad Wwe arlene We ae calyx, yellow. Stamens as long as the petals. 
Capsule on a pedicel 14-2 lines long, about 4-5 lines long, two lines wide, tipped 
with a subulate style ; the wings nearly one line wide, 
19, Z. microcarpum (Lichtenst. herb., Cham, & Schl. L. ¢.) ; shrub- 
by; the branches and branchlets opposite or alternate, terete, articu- 
late ; leaves petiolate ; leaflets narrow elliptical, sub-acute, fleshy, nearly 
equal to the petiole ; stipules hyaline; sepals ovate, acute ; petals 
13-twice as long, narrow-obovate, clawed ; filaments twice as long 
as the broadly cuneate scales; ovary tomentose ; capsule pilose, broadly 
5-winged, deeply excised at the apex, the wings sub-orbicular. Z. garie- 
pense, H. Mey. ! in Hb. Drege. 
Var. 8. prostratum; stem prostrate, leaves mostly smaller. Z. 
prostratum, £. Mey.! non Thunb. 
Has. Olifant’s River, Lichtenstein. Gariep, Drege / Rhinosterke opt, near Beaufort, 
Zey./ 279. B. Limoenfeld, Winterveld, 3000—4000f. Drege! Oct.-Jan. (Herb. reg.- 
Berol., T.C.D., Sond.), 
Stems and branches woody, as thick as a fowl’s quill, yellowish, grey below, 
thickened at the joints. Internodes 3-4 lines to one inch long, Branchlets spread- 
ing, greenish. Petiole with a small, weak point. Leaflets 2-4 lines long, 1-1} 
lines wide. Stipules short, whitish, subulate-acuminate from a broad base. Flowers 
axillary, short-stalked, 5-cleft. Sepals two lines long. Petals whitish. Stamens 
as long as the calyx, the scale much dilated and too at top. Capsule shortly 
pedicellate, 3-4 lines wide, 2 lines Jong; wings veiny ; a ra ae —— 
long, in the indention of the capsule. 
20. Z. Lichtensteinianum (Cham. and Schl. 1 ‘pay? abe | 
branches lignescent, terete, without strie ; leaves petiolate ; leaflets elip- 
tical or elliptic-oblong, rounded-obtuse, sub-retuse, oblique at base, 2 
thery ; sepals obtuse, downy ; petals obovate, cuneate ; filaments thrice : 
as long as the obovate-oblong, fimbriato-lacerate scales ; capsule hed 
ripe) sub-spheroid, a5 Tee. se Thunbergianum, E. GZ. ! 763, excl. 
syn. 
Has. Cape Lichtenstein. “Among shrubs in Karoo, t Gans Rive, Swell, £. 
ibe Faso quads waned T.C.D., Sond.) | 
green (not dh larger 6:9 Hiner three lines wide, but most] 
me wie Coeint m or less. Sve eigen ne 
fid. , nodding, et . 
i ermere petal Salsas kong 20 ts only pale yellow Stamens as long. 
padeest 9 ston winged, ti with a subulate style. Known from A, Mong ee 
sana by the longer petioles ; flowers twice as small, and much smaller 
21. Z. leptopetalum (E. Mey. !) ; suffruticose ; branches herba ac 
